A video showing young Jews wearing skull caps dancing in a lounge of Jordan’s Queen Alia International Airport, has gone viral, with Arabic internet users attacking it as “provocative” and Jordanian MPs calling for government action.

The young people in the
video perform a traditional Jewish circle dance, while singing a
wedding song in Hebrew. While no onlooker seems to be bothered by
the dance, the online audience got much more emotional.

“He who was sitting in the airport and saw the dance and
wasn’t provoked is a pig,” The Jerusalem Post cited a post
by Ahmad Abu-Haniyeh, who presented himself as a doctor in the
Jordanian Health Ministry.

Israelis “dance on our dignity,”“killed our beloved
and then danced on our land,"“what a shame” were
among other reactions to the video posted by Jordanians. Many
said that Jordanians would never be allowed to perform their
national dances at an Israeli airport.

The video was also found offensive by Jordanian MPs, who raised
the issue at a Tuesday session, attacking the government for
“inaction” over the incident, The Jordan Times reported,
describing the dance as “a ritual Talmudic” one.

Interior Minister Hussein Majali tried to alleviate the tension
by telling MPs that security personnel at the airport were quick
to stop the Israelis from dancing.

The Director of Media and Communication at the airport, Zahiya
al-Na’asan, was cited by Al Jazeera Arabic as saying that
"the management of the airport has not received a single
complaint from any passenger about the incident that took
place."

She added that "unusual events and celebrations were not
uncommon for airport lounges."

Despite Jordan and Israel having signed a peace agreement in
1994, relations between the two countries remain strained, as a
large number of Jordanians are of Palestinian descent.